The pontiff has written a letter - printed in an Italian newspaper - in response to a question about whether God forgave those who do not believe in Him. Pope Francis has said in a letter to an Ital...
Pope Francis is willing to meet government and opposition leaders in Venezuela to try and restart attempts to solve a volatile political crisis in the country, President Nicolás Maduro (pictured bel...
Pope Francis has officially changed the wording of the Lord's Prayer, after claims that the translation was misleading. The pontiff first voiced his concerns about the wording in 2017, and called for...
Pope Francis has declined to confirm or deny claims by the Vatican's retired ambassador to the United States that he knew in 2013 about sexual misconduct allega Francis said the 11-page text by Archb...
The Pope has said he won't rule out speaking to so called Islamic State (I.S.), if he thought it could bring about peace in Iraq and Syria. While admitting it would be "almost impossible" to open dia...
Pope Francis opened a divisive meeting on preserving the Amazon and ministering to its indigenous peoples on Sunday as he fended off attacks from conservatives Francis celebrated an opening Mass in ...
Pope Francis urged Catholic bishops to dream of a future free of the mistakes of the past and hit out at clericalism as he opened a global church lead Yet close to the Vatican's synod hall, about two...
Pope Francis has admitted that he personally ordered an investigation into claims of child sexual abuse in Spain. Earlier this week three priests and a lay person in the city of Granada were arrested...
The Pope has commuted the prison sentence of a Spanish priest convicted in July of disclosing Vatican information and said that he should be freed. In a trial dubbed 'Vatileaks II', Monsigor Angel Lu...
Scotland's most senior Catholic priest has welcomed a decision by Pope Francis to launch a fact finding mission into sexual misconduct allegations made against Scotland's most senior Catholic priest...
Pope Francis has described 29 people killed by gunmen targeting a bus carrying Coptic Christians in Egypt on Friday as "martyrs". Leading thousands of people in prayer for the victims at the Vatican ...
Pope Francis may not return to the Philippines for his 2016 International Eucharistic Congress (IEC), according to Archbishop Pierro Marini. GMA Cebu reported that Archbishop Pierro Marini, the presi...
Pope Francis has pledged to donate $500,000 to support Church-run educational, medical and agricultural projects in war-torn South Sudan. The Catholic humanitarian organisation Caritas Internationali...
Pope Francis is expected to make a dramatic intervention on climate change later this week, releasing his first major teaching letter, known as an encyclical, o According to the New York Times, the e...
An American art museum says it hopes a special portrait of Pope Benedict XVI made from colourful condoms will begin a conversation about AIDS in African countri The Milwaukee Art Museum, in Wisconsin...
Pope Francis has been praised by commentators on the fifth anniversary of his papacy for improving the image of Catholicism outside the Church. While the Vatican's Secretary of State praised him for ...
Pope Francis has lauded the strength and religious passion of Paraguayan women while visiting the country's most important pilgrimage site. Thousands of his fellow Argentines joined hundreds of thous...
The Pope has prayed at Armenia's genocide memorial one day after surprisingly branding an Ottoman-era massacre of Armenians a century ago a planned "genocide." Francis also laid flowers at the monume...
Pope Francis is praying for those affected by a deadly avalanche in central Italy, as the Ansa news agency has quoted police who say eight people have been According to the state television broadcast...
Pope Francis has prayed for the seven-time F1 champion Michael Schumacher, who is in critically ill in hospital. The racer spent six months in an induced coma in 2014 after suffering a serious head i...
